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Song definition

Song is a noun meaning "a short musical composition with words." It has 5 meanings, listed below with example sentences.

Part of speech
noun
Syllables
1
Letters
4
How common
Everyday word

Song as a noun

  1. a short musical composition with words

    "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"

    Same sense: vocal

  2. a distinctive or characteristic sound

    "the song of bullets was in the air"

  3. the act of singing

    "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"

    Same sense: strain

  4. the characteristic sound produced by a bird

    "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age"

    Same sense: call, birdsong, birdcall

  5. a very small sum

    "he bought it for a song"

Synonyms and antonyms

All synonyms of song, sense by sense

How to say song

Song has 1 syllable and rhymes with long. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with song

SONG in word games

Scrabble
5
Words With Friends
7
Anagrams
2

Is SONG a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check SONG in the word checker, or unscramble SONG to see its 2 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.

Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.